We all know that much of the cybercrime that is happening in the U.S. is coming from Eastern European and African nations. In some Eastern European countries, hackers that target America are treated like rock stars (no joke). How do we realistically stop this?

Well, Dr. Prescott Winter, the former Chief Technology Officer at the National Security Agency (NSA), has a very unique and bold idea. Countries a that harbour cyber criminals should be locked out of the global internet until their governments do something to reduce the threats.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald article, Winter said that when countries are consistently introducing cyber threats the global community should band together to effectively shut them out of the internet until their governments do something about it

Hmmm…bold proposition for sure. Is is possible? We don’t know. We welcome all thoughts, ideas and feedback.

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